Chief Executive
CurrentMedevac Frontline is a charity that saves lives from very challenging and hostile environments overseas. We do this by contracting and deploying highly trained NHS Paramedic volunteers from the 21 Air Ambulance Services (the NHS’s specialist Helicopter Emergency Medical Service or HEMS) and the NHS Ambulance Trusts ten Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) units. Our 6-person paramedic crews are qualified and equipped to medically evacuate patients from: explosive, chemical, biological or… Show more Medevac Frontline is a charity that saves lives from very challenging and hostile environments overseas. We do this by contracting and deploying highly trained NHS Paramedic volunteers from the 21 Air Ambulance Services (the NHS’s specialist Helicopter Emergency Medical Service or HEMS) and the NHS Ambulance Trusts ten Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) units. Our 6-person paramedic crews are qualified and equipped to medically evacuate patients from: explosive, chemical, biological or nuclear attacks; those with high-risk infectious disease; from industrial accidents where patients are subject to hazardous material spills; from collapsed buildings; swift water; from acts of terrorism involving explosive devices, firearms, knives and / or weaponised vehicles; from patients taken ill at height and providing healthcare support to specific Government security operations and police raids. Medevac Frontline can train personnel in these skills at the invitation of overseas Governments.We can also be operational: Under an Agreement with the charity UK-Med, which is the UK’s lead Emergency Medical Team (EMT) for the UK Government, Medevac Frontline joins the UK-EMT.The UK-EMT is the frontline of the FCDO’s response to a humanitarian crisis and means we could be operating in Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Nepal) the Middle East (Occupied Palestinian Territories, Yemen) or Africa (Zambia, Zimbabwe, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, or Niger) within 72-hours of receiving instructions from FCDO to mobilise. We have also joined the World Health Organisation’s ‘EMT initiative’. This is a process of gaining formal classification with WHO as a Type 1 Mobile EMT. This will put us on a list of ‘go to’ accredited EMT’s deployable at a sudden onset disaster anywhere in the world. Show less
